Re: recording audio from a broadcast audio stream?

From: Tim Kynerd (tim_at_tram.nu)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 08:17:07 +0200

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 03:42:48 +0100
AC <aec$news@candt.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> I would appreciate some pointers about how to record from a broadcast
> audio stream. The specific situations for me are streams such as
> internet radio broadcasts:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/
> (and select listen live to Radio 2 etc)
>
> when using my traditional windowbox I can install the radio player
> (real player I think) to simply play it, and I can then use Total
> Recorder from www.highcriteria.com (Purchased) to record with various
> options. I have not gained a good understanding of sound recording
> parameters, but it seems to record as .wav fairly easily, and that is
> quite ok for me at present.
>
> With suse (9.1) I see I can use konquerer and play (bbc, say).
> It seems to need Real player plugin, with suggestions for linux:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/audiohelp_nix.shtml
>
> On a dual boot pc with the plugin installed for mozilla it plays ok
> (win).
>
> On suse it was apparently easy to install real player - it is in the
> multimedia menu I think, I simply registered afaik, and it worked. And
> the bbc site plays (listen live) fine. Presumably this is the real
> player plugin working(?)
> From the desktop menu (KDE?) I can see a record app - Krecord - and
> the start record button seems to start a process. But the levels
> indicated are very small (-50, or -100db). It saves as a wav file too,
> but there is no sound at playback, presumably the level is too low?
>
> The PC is a ASUS P4C800 with 1 Gb ram, onboard sound - looks like
> Analog devices Soundmax from win, and this needed drivers from the
> mainboard resource cd.

I've never tried to use Krecord (well, I have, but I could never quite
get it to work).

I've used Audacity to record, with considerable success, but I often
find I have to experiment with different choices for the input (sound
source) before I get sound. Perhaps you need to do the same with
Krecord, or perhaps you would simply have better success with Audacity
or another recording app.

BTW, I have recorded .WAV files from RealPlayer using Audacity -- not
from broadcast streams, but I think it should work the same, because I'm
pretty sure Audacity is simply picking up what's fed through the sound
card, once I've selected the correct input to make it do that.

Good luck. 

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